KIDNEY STONE SURGERY

I will be looking into a dietician.

I've been taking tylenol/motrin mix which is working very well. Doctor also told me to take a cranberry pill every day. He said I'll be uncomfortable for a few more days.

My surgeon sent me a guide for foods and recipes.

Hey... Checking in...

How are you doing?

I'm glad the antibiotics helped.

Clo

Glad you are feeling better!!!

I was getting very frequent and extremely painful UTIs. Dr put me on an estrogen cream every other day and also evista (raloxifene) which is a synthetic estrogen. I also take d-mannose and 2 cranberry pills daily and I haven’t had a uti for quite a while now.

I know your issue is kidney stones rather than uti, but since you mentioned your dr told you to take cranberry pills I just wanted to share that Clo gave me some useful info on cranberry pills regarding the strength and different brands. I’m taking ones I buy at Costco — I think it’s trunature brand. They seem to have the same strength and formulation as some of the more expensive cranberry capsules.

I'm taking Nature Made Cranberry capsules (500 mg) once a day. Is that enough?

I also have AZO Cranberry urinary tract health with probiotics and vitamin C. I have not taken them yet.

Thank you! I feel better. Still a little pressure of wanting to pee but I'm going to assume that will go away?

Ps… regarding pressure to pee, clo mentioned the little brown pills — they are the only thing that gets me through the initial couple of days of a UTI. I get them by prescription but I think you can find them over the counter. I can’t recall the name but it starts with phena….or phenyl…. You might ask your dr if it would help. They make your pee a very bright shade of orange. But works wonders in relieving pain and pressure. But beware it will stain your undies if you have any little drips and it doesn’t bleach out.

I remembered I cut and pasted some of clo’s post in a Note:

Ellura cranberry pills,
36 mg soluble PAC (proanthocyanidins) from 206 mg concentrated cranberry juice concentrate extract powder (Gikacran)
“when you are starting a UTI to switch over to the Ellura brand at least for a week or two and then I can go back to the generic). She just thinks they work better fighting the infection and clearing it.... 2 generic/day then 3-4 with UTI or 1 elluria + 2 generic”

The info describing the ingredient in the ellura brand cranberry I looked up on Amazon. I am using trunature brand of cranberry because they also have the 36 mg of PAC and they’re half the price. I think clo is now too, because of the cost. So far so good for me and no more UTI for quite a while but I am also using a couple other approaches.

And the brown pills do help with the pressure and the feeling of needing to pee but in your case I certainly wouldn’t try them without checking with your dr.

Hope you’re feeling better by now!

Well... I was away...

I was taking Ellura cranberry capsules .. they were 118.00 way back then. I switched over to the Trunature and have been taking them for about a year. I have ordered the Ellura capsules to use when I get an infection. I take two generic (Trunature,) per day usually. If I have an infection I double up on the Trunature to 4 a day. If that doesn't help I switch to 2 Ellura and then 2 Trunature. It is the 36 paks per capsule that's important. The reason the Ellura are better is because they are made from the juice of the cranberry and it's more potent. The Trunature are made up of the total berry so you get less juice so they are not supposed to be as good. But the cost is too high except for emergencies...and they usually work for me. I also use CNPUSA D-Mannose powdered. I get 3 jars every 6 months and use 4 grams per day. The 3 jars are cheaper plus I get free shipping. You'll probably need to experiment on the timing of dosage. I used to split cranberry capsules..but it works better for me if I take the cranberry all in the morning and the DMannose at lunch and then bed time.

On the brown pills ...they have them at Walmart under UTI pain pills. They are OTC. You can get them by script but I can't tell the difference. They help with pain or the feeling of pressure.

I also use estradiol estrogen cream. This is very important. Half a gram every other day. I have to have that or the feeling of pressure or something being "stuck" in the urethra returns. Very uncomfortable. If I drop the ball on even one of them that feeling comes back. Your regular doc can test your estrogen level....but I went to a urogynecologist. She did not test my levels. She said that women around menopause age or who have IBD frequently need the extra estrogen to help not develop UTIs.

If I do all the above I don't get UTIs. But I have since discovered that sometimes when I was experiencing that pressure and thought it was a UTI....if I took my stone stopper capsules that feeling would go away. I take 4 a night right before bed. I tried in the morning or after noon..or splitting them up ...none of that worked. 4 a night right before bed.

It's a lot of juggling....but Gosh ..I don't ever want to go back there again.

My urologist wonders if my new stones developed because I was taking the stone stopper 2 in am and 2 in afternoon. The 4 at 1 time seems to .work better for me.

Clo

Post Edited (clo2014) : 5/15/2024 7:15:32 PM (GMT-8)

Sure. I've had few stent procedures and few sound wave procedures .
Waited 24 hours at least before thinking about it.
If I felt fine then I was ready.
Good luck.
Steve 65 yr old male😊

Post Edited (3timechamp) : 5/16/2024 9:32:46 AM (GMT-8)

Blushing here....

Yes you can have sex.... In regards to the stones and stent removal.

But when you have a UTI immediately drink water with 2 grams of D-Mannose in it right afterwards.. They recommended Uqora individual packages of "Flush" for that though... Although you can substitute the powdered DMannose instead.

Clo

Just a thought.

Michele, so glad to keep reading good updates.

Thanks to everyone for your support!! I really could not have gotten through this without your guidance.

Next Thursday I'll be going on vacation.